Happy Holidays!
Wow, we are in the month of December! It's a nice time to walk around, see the sights, enjoy the window displays in the stores, share some holiday stories and enjoy some food!
It's snowing and it feels like winter! The gnomes outside are covered in snow!
Winter Gnomes!
The air smells of gingerbread cookies and hot cocoa. Yummy!
Gingerbread Puppets in Hot Cocoa!
Supplies: Card stock or Paper with designs on it, brown paper, one wooden stick, glue/tape, foam stickers, small foam shapes, white fabric and crayons/markers.
Instructions:
1. Cut out 2 identical mug shapes from colorful paper and Attach them together by the handle and by the other side. Make sure you can put a small stick puppet through the top and bottom openings.
2. Cut out a small gingerbread shape from brown paper. Color in a face and decorations on the paper gingerbread shape. Attach small foam shapes for the buttons.
3. Attach the gingerbread shape onto one end of a wooden ice cream stick.
4. Decorate the paper mug with foam stickers. Cut out small squares from white fabric. This will be the marshmallows. Attach them onto the top of the mug shape. Cut out and attach a small strip of brown paper onto the top of the mug as well to make it look as if the mug has hot chocolate in it.
5. Place the gingerbread stick puppet through the openings of the mug and move it up and down to make it seem as if the gingerbread shape is emerging up and down from the hot chocolate.
Enjoy the gingerbread hot chocolate puppets below created by the children at the library!
There are candy canes in the stores. They come in all colors and flavors!
Paper Candy Cane Designs!
Supplies: Card stock or construction paper, scissors, glue/tape and stickers.
Instructions:
1. Cut out a candy cane shape from construction paper or card stock.
2. Cut out several small strips of paper in different colors of your choice. Make sure the strips are wide enough to cover the candy cane shape.
3. Cover the candy cane shape with the strips of paper. Attach the strips onto the candy cane with glue/tape.
4. Adorn the candy cane with stickers if you wish.
Enjoy the paper candy canes below designed by the children at the library!
It's time to wrap presents and gift cards!
Paper Gift Card!
Supplies: One sheet of letter sized card stock, strips of paper, a paper bow, tissue paper, crayons/markers, glue/tape and other shapes you wish to use for decoration.
Instructions:
1. Fold the sheet of card stock in 3 sections. One end should fold over inward and meet the edge of the other end that folds over inward. Now you have a paper present or gift card.
2. Attach tissue paper on the inside of the folded paper card stock sheet so that it looks as if the present has tissue paper in it.
3. Attach strips of paper on the outside of the paper gift card to make it resemble ribbons or decorations. Attach a bow on the middle front as well.
4. Color in a design on the outside of the gift card and decorate with shapes and stickers of your choice. Feel free to place anything you like on the inside of the card or just leave empty and the gift card is for decoration for the holidays.
Enjoy the paper gift cards below designed by the children at the library!
It's nice to unwrap gifts under the tree and fireplace with the stockings hanging from the mantle!
Paper Fire Places with Stockings
Supplies: Card stock, fabric, 2 small strips of brown paper, black paper, crayons/markers, glue/tape and anything else you wish to use.
Instructions:
1. Cut out a rectangular piece of card stock and fold in half. The top half will be the fireplace and the bottom half will be the rug area.
2. Cut out an arch shape piece of black paper and attach onto the bottom middle of the top part of the folded card stock. This will be the fireplace.
3. Cut out 2-3 small strips of brown paper and attach them onto the bottom of the black arch. These will be the logs.
4. Attach a paper flame on top of the logs. You can use yellow or orange paper and color in a red outline on the flame.
5. Cut out a strip of card stock and attach onto the very top of the fireplace onto the top edge of the folded card stock. This will be the mantle or shelf of the fire place.
6. Cut out 3 or 4 stocking shapes from fabric and attach onto the mantle. Draw any festive design on the mantle, such as lights or holiday greenery.
7. Cut out a square or rectangular piece of fabric and attach onto the bottom half of the folded card stock so that there appears to be a rug to sit on facing the fireplace.
Enjoy the paper fire places below created by the children at the library!
One of the gifts opened is a holiday sweater! It'll be nice to wear it for the holiday party!
Holiday Sweaters!
Supplies: Fabric, Plain Card Stock, Glue/Tape, String, Scissors and Foam Shapes.
Instructions:
1. Cut out a sweater shape from plain card stock. Cut out a sweater shape from fabric.
2. Attach the fabric sweater shape onto the card stock sweater shape.
3. Decorate the sweater with strips of fabric and foam shapes.
4. Attach a string onto the back of the sweater so that you can hang the holiday sweater on a tree like an ornament.
Enjoy the holiday sweaters below created by the children at the library!
Another nice present to receive is a snow globe!
Paper Snow Globes!
Supplies: Card stock, 3 strips of cardboard, one small strip of fabric, glue/tape, crayons/markers, stickers, foam shapes and white fabric.
Instructions to follow later:
Lego Land has gingerbread figurines! Perhaps we can build a Lego Gingerbread House!
Supplies: One letter-sized sheet of card stock, small pieces of paper cut in squares, rectangles and circles, small green paper triangles, cut outs of gingerbread shapes, stickers, crayons/markers, scissors, glue/tape, pom poms and anything else you wish to use.
Instructions:
1. Fold the sheet of card stock into a book. Stand it up on a flat surface. Cut out slants or angles from the top edges to make a roof shape. Now you have your gingerbread house.
2. Cut out gingerbread figures from brown paper. Make sure the hands and feet are of similar shape to Lego figurines. Draw faces on them and decorate with stickers, pom poms and small pieces of paper. Attach the gingerbread figures on the outside and inside of the folded card stock sheet house.
3. Attach the smaller shapes of paper (squares, rectangles, circles and trapezoids) onto the gingerbread house and make them into holiday decoratio
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